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Photographer documents atrocities of war in Ukraine while distributing humanitarian aid

Photographer Mark Neville started documenting suffering in Ukraine in 2015, turning his lens to 2.5 million people displaced by the Russian annexation of Crimea. Now, Neville — who was forced to temporarily flee Ukraine with his Ukrainian wife — has started the Postcode Ukraine charity
'Display of seized and destroyed Russian tanks on Khreschatyk High Street, Kyiv' August 2022, (Mark Neville)

Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of rape and sexual assault.

You might remember Mark Neville — the British ex-pat who moved to Ukraine shortly after the 2014 war in Crimea. He says he fell in love with the country, as well as the Ukrainian woman he would soon marry. Since then, he’s used his camera lens to document the lives of Ukrainians, including some of the 2.5 million people displaced by the earlier war.

It was his fear of new war that inspired his first book, “,” a stunning collection of photographs of Ukrainians. He sent the volume to 750 world leaders, hoping

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